{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Nothopegia beddomei.jpg | image_caption = Nothopegia beddomei fruits | taxon = Nothopegia | authority = Blume (1850) | synonyms = ''Glycicarpus'' {{small|Dalzell (1849)}} | synonyms_ref = <ref name = powo/> }}
'''''Nothopegia''''' is a genus of plants in the family Anacardiaceae, native to India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka.<ref name = powo/> Out of 11 species only 8 are reported to occur in India.<ref>{{cite book |vauthors=Chandra D, Mukerjee SK|title=Flora of India|publisher=Botanical Survey of India|location= Kolkata|year=2000|url=https://bsi.gov.in/uploads/documents/Public_Information/publication/books/Flora%20of%20India%20latest/FLORA%20OF%20INDIA%20VOL.5.pdf|volume=5|pages=470–478}}</ref> This genus is characterised by small deciduous trees with simple leaves, racemose inflorescence, unisexual tetramerous flowers and drupaceaous fruits <ref name=J>{{cite journal |author=Prabhat Kumar Das|author2=Tirthabrata Sahoo|author3=Samarendra Narayan Mallick|author4=Pratap Chandra Panda|title=First record of occurrence of the tree species ''Nothopegia racemosa'' (Dalz.) Ramamurthy (Anacardiaceae) from Eastern Ghats of India|journal=International Journal of Botany Studies|issn=2455-541X |year=2021 |volume=6|issue=6|pages=944–946|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/356961289|via=ResearchGate}}</ref> Except ''Nothopegia heyneana'' (Hook. f.) Gamble, all other species are restricted to the Western Ghats and SW India.<ref name=J/>
Species include:<ref name = powo>{{cite web |url= https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:326019-2#children |title= Nothopegia Blume |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=n.d. |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=June 1, 2020}}</ref> * ''Nothopegia acuminata'' <small>J.Sinclair</small> * ''Nothopegia aureofulva'' <small>Bedd. ex Hook.f.</small> * ''Nothopegia beddomei'' <small>Gamble</small> * ''Nothopegia castaneifolia'' <small>(Roth) Ding Hou</small> * ''Nothopegia colebrookeana'' <small>(Wight) Blume</small> * ''Nothopegia heyneana'' <small>(Hook.f.) Gamble</small> * ''Nothopegia monadelpha'' <small>(Roxb.) Forman</small> * ''Nothopegia sivagiriana'' <small>Murugan & Manickam</small> * ''Nothopegia travancorica'' <small>Bedd. ex Hook.f.</small> * ''Nothopegia vajravelui'' <small>K.Ravik. & V.Lakshm.</small>
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Category:Nothopegia Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Category:Anacardiaceae genera Category:Flora of the Indian subcontinent
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